Arctic Prairies

Harper & Row, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 415 pages with an index. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and off-white pages. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. The great nature writer, Ernest Thompson Seton produced another nature classic with this work, The Arctic Prairies-A Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou which details the author's adventures in northern Canada while on an expedition to study the wild caribou. In the author's words, "In 1907 I set out to journey by canoe down the Athabaska and adjoining waters to the sole remaining forest wilds--the far north-west of Canada--and the yet more desert Arctic Plains, where still, it was said, were to be seen the Caribou in their primitive condition The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.